Variations: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

by Jean-Clet Martin, Editions Editions Payot (Other), Constantin V. Boundas (Translator), Susan Dyrkton (Translator)

Overview

Jean-Clet Martin offers an insightful reading of Deleuze, from the point of view of a student, a reader and a fellow philosopher with whom Deleuze himself corresponded about his work.By providing a philosophical reading of Deleuze by a major philosophical peer, Martin offers the reader a unique analysis of Deleuze's texts. An opening letter-preface by Deleuze to Martin testifies to the confidence that Deleuze had placed in Martin's interpretation of his work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748638826
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	04/08/2010
Series:	Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jean-Clet Martin is a philosopher. He is the author of several books that relate to the philosophy of aesthetics and science.

Constantin V. Boundas is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Trent University, Canada. He is an editor and translator of the work of Gilles Deleuze, including an editor of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Columbia UniversityPress, 1991) and translator of Gilles Deleuze's Empiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UniversityPress, 1991).

Susan Dyrkton has worked with Constantin V. Boundas for over 20 years. This translation is their first truly collaborative effort.

Table of Contents

Letter-Preface by Gilles Deleuze; Preamble; First Variation: Ethics and Aesthetics; 1. Battlefield; 2. Transcendental Empiricism; 3. Nomadology; Second Variation: Three Poetic Formulas for Nomadic Distribution; 4. Time out of Joint; 5. The Dicethrow; 6. 'The Garden of Forking Paths'; Third Variation: Multiplicities; 7. The Image of Thought; 8. Variations; 9. Poetics of Multiplicities; Fourth Variation: Malcolm Lowry or the Manifesto of Things; 10. The March toward Death; 11. Mannerisms; 12. For a Microphysics of Multiplicities; Postface to the Anglo-American Edition; Notes; Works by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Works Quoted in the Book; Index.

Editorial Reviews

Boundas and Dyrkton have rendered an invaluable service by opening access to Jean-Clet Martin's important response to the work of Deleuze, a response that combines both philosophical rigor and poetic elegance with an insistence on demonstrating and relaying the conceptual multiplicity at the heart of Deleuzian philosophy, rather than merely commenting on it.

Eugene W. Holland